A pump positioning and driving vehicle for remote sites such as mines having a trailer with a jib for raising and lowering a water pump down the face of a site to submerge the pump which rides on a cart with wheels. The cart is connected to the trailer by a pair of hoses which are wound on a reel. A hydraulic generator on the trailer supplies power to the pump through the hoses which return water output from the pump to the trailer where it discharges into a drainage conduit. In a variant, the trailer has an electrical generator and one of the hoses contains an electrical cable for driving an electric pump motor. The trailer wheels rise hydraulically to allow the trailer to lie on the ground.
B60P 3/14 - Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work
B65H 75/34 - Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
Apparatus for illuminating the sloping faces of an open cut mine consists of a trailer which is towable to the site by a four wheel drive vehicle and a mobile cart which travels to and from the trailer. The cart has an array of floodlights and a drive motor which are supplied with power by a cable inside a hose fed from a reel on the trailer. A generator and pump on the trailer supply power for reel rotation and cart travel. The cart has two sets of wheels, one above the other at the front of the cart to prevent tipping as the cart travels down the sloping face. The cart is tethered to the trailer and the reel feed is matched to the cart speed.
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